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[[You can find the Weekly Themes post HERE with the text version of the image below.]]

And our 14th week will be a special week dedicated to the best fans a fandom could ask for: YOU!!

Weekly themes are going to be what the event blog's activities will revolve around. Polls, ask and tag games, etc will focus on these themes (learn more about the games HERE)-- if you'd like your prompt fills to match the theme too, that's totally up to you! It might pose an extra challenge if that's something you're looking for 😉

Prompts will be released every Monday at 12:01 am CST

WEEK 1 PROMPTS

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After the announcement teaser trailer in 2023 completely blew up and I got to see how much love and support there already is for Tukk, his company and the project, I got motivated to push both my storytelling skills and the film itself a lot further, going back and rewriting the whole thing to let us spend more time with these characters and tell a more impactful and memorable story.

Instead of a little one-off 6 minute short (which at the time was still mostly in rough previz stage), it evolved into something closer to a full Clone Wars episode, which I've eventually decided to separate into three mini-episodes, inspired by the beautiful "Tales of" shows from Lucasfilm.

With that expansion also came the need for a lot more characters, designs and assets. And since I'm making all of those from scratch, with hand-painted textures, animator-friendly rigs and screen-accurate details that have to hold up in all kinds of close-ups, I've spent a LOT of time on that part of the process while simultaneously setting up some of the previz animations for the new story.

But an end of that step is in sight and once it is complete, updates will become way more frequent as I'm much faster when it comes to bringing shots from previz to a final stage.

I still can't give a release date yet as it's a no-budget personal project that is happening between client jobs, but it's still going full steam ahead and I'm extremely excited about the new direction it has taken on a while ago.

I'll also be looking for other character animators to bring onto the project later on and help out with some shots, so if you're interested in volunteering, feel free to send me your reel (mail address in my linktree)!

That's it for now, more character reveals soon (and no, they won't all be clones 🗡️🥸)!

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